News from The Examiner, covering Armonk-North Castle, Briarcliff, Chappaqua-New Castle, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, Pleasantville, Westchester County, NY.
An unexpected sharp reduction in Mount Pleasant’s health insurance premium for 2025 has reduced the town’s spending by nearly $300,000 enabling officials to present a budget for next year that is under the tax cap. Mount Pleasant Comptroller Noreen McGinty
Read MoreFormer secretary of state and defeated 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton painted a bleak picture facing many immigrants during the next four years, predicting indiscriminate raids and detention even for arrivals with proper documentation. Clinton, who was the featured
Read MoreThe applicant for a proposed five-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) in Valhalla argued for a hardship waiver to Mount Pleasant’s moratorium for the facilities as town officials made clear why they enacted the pause. Attorney Robert Gaudioso said at
Read MoreBy Martin Wilbur The North Castle Town Board is on track to approve a $42.6 million budget for 2025 with no tax increase, bolstered by an overflowing fund balance that will be used to help balance the budget. Board members
Read MoreChappaqua school officials are considering a partnership with Northwell Health and other districts throughout Westchester to increase resources and support for students experiencing mental health issues. The program, which would launch for the start of next school year if enough
Read MoreMount Pleasant residents grilled the Town Board last week over the likelihood of exceeding the tax cap while granting themselves raises and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting a voting rights lawsuit. For about an hour-and-a-half last Tuesday evening,
Read MoreBy the middle of 2025, Mount Kisco will be the home for the newest location of one of the most popular burger chains operating today. Shake Shack is scheduled to move into the roughly 4,000-square-foot vacant space at 176 N.
Read MorePleasantville officials are leaning toward raising pool fees by about 35 percent for village residents for the upcoming summer to help defray some of the costs to build the new facility. The issue of the likely increase in pool membership fees
Read MoreThe North Castle Town Board is faced with deciding on a petition from the unit owners of a new high-end condominium development who requested officials allow the two affordable residences to be relocated off-site. Residents at The Byram, a 16-unit
Read MoreEugene Song decided to become an entrepreneur earlier this year, and so far, he’s savoring the opportunity. In September, Song opened Green Room Music, one of the area’s newest schools offering individual and group music lessons, on Main Street in
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